Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:27 pm
There is no issues with static IPs and hotspots. Is the host you're trying to ping logged in, or at least bypassed? If it isn't of course traffic to/from it would be dropped, after all that is what a Hotspot does.
If you need to ping even unauthenticated hosts you can allow ICMP in the walled garden IP level.